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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03
THE CIRCULATION OF THE BLOOD.

The Journal recently published a paper by
Mr.. w. L. Stonex, of Elkhart, in which he adj
vanced the theory that the circulation of the
blood was caused by electricity acting by the
forces of attraction and repusion through pos
tive and negative poles in the atomic struct-
of the body. Admitting this, it would
still be necessary to account for the constant
presence and inexhaustible supply of electric
ity. Professor Stonex suggested that it is
taken from the air which is brought into the
lungs by respiration. The theory appeared to
be original with him. A communication
which we publish from DR.. H. j. Brown, of
this city, shows that he several years ago adj
vanced the theory that electricity is the cause
of the circulation OF the blood, or, to quote his
words, that 1.-The positive and negative forces
of electricity the motor force that keeps
up the constant round of circulation of the
blood and the hearts action" DR.. Browns
theory derives the electricity from the food
taken into the stomach, the evolution of cleo
tricity being one of the results of digestion.
The heart according to his theory, has
nothing to do with furnishing the motive
power of the circulation, its function
corresponding to that of the governor in a
steam engine DR.. Brown, like Prof Stonex
finds evidences of polarization in every atom
of the blood and body, thus furnishing a basis
for the dynamic operation of electricity
through attraction and repulsion. In short
his theory embraces every material point ad-
vanced by Prof. Stonex, and as it was ad-
vanced several years ago. the latter can hardly
claim priority of discovery, if it is a discov-
cry. This theory, it may be remarked, does
not collide with that of Harvey, who discov-
cred the circulation of the blood. Indeed,
his discovery was confined to the fact that
the blood did circulate, the cause of the cir
culation being left unaccounted for. The old
idea of the spasmodic action of the heart
seems inadequate, for the question still re-
ours, what causes the spasmodic action of the
heart?
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

ANY chance that the Rev. DR.. McGlyun may
have had of being restored to the church was
recklessly destroyed by his announcement. on
Sunday evening that he hoped to see democratic
Pope walking down Broadway with stove pipe
hat on his head and an umbrella under his arm.
When Pope Leo hears of this he will draw his
pettcoats around him and devoutly give thanks
that the refractory and sacrilesious priest was
bounced" lust when he was.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03
The Trial OF Entherins ham.

ST Louis, May 2-The jury in the Fother-
ingham case was completed this afternoon and
testimony will begin to morrow. lie Is not at all
likely however that the trial will proceed far
before the question of Jurisdiction is raised.
Fotheringham Indicted for larceny from q
railroad train, and can be- tried only in tie
ty in which the offensa committed When
the State fails show that the robbery
committed in St. Louis. and it Is believed that
they kill il is understood that Judge Normile
will instruct the jury acquit the defendant.
What will be done then is not known, but il
seems 10 be the general belief in legal circle
hat tnsrs Will bs further PROSECUTION.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

THE Council was wise in taking time to
consider the new gas ordinance and to inform
itself thoroughly the important aspects of
the 1t would have been the height of
unwisdom to have rushed the ordinance
through without due consideration. AS we
have said before, there is need of energy and
pronptness, but not basty action. Let
everything be done decently and In order.
The franchise of supplying Indianapolis with
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

hastily, either in whole or in part. to be
granted at all without restrictions. No time
will be lost and valuable points may be gained
by communicating with other cities which
have contracted for natural gas. By all
means let us profit by the experience of
restrictions or guarantees that the city ex-
poets to get must be secured in advance or
never
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

THE boycott is un-American in principle,
cowardly and tyrannical in practice, a vicious
expression of a vicious idea, absolutely with
out redeeming feature No business man
or manufacturer who has a spark of manhood
in him should submit to it, and all fair minded
men should rally to the support of any person
attacked with this infamous weapon.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

If Mr.. Tom Johnson has patent on any
sort Of pavement perhaps the street-railway
company would be willing to lay that particu-
lar style of pavement along it's Washington
street tracks and charge the expense to the
city. The street-railway company desires to
have it understood that it will not stand out
against anything reasonable in this line.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

IT might be well to say that people who do
not possess low-cut vests and spike-tail coats
will be- permitted to see and hear Edwin
Booth, if they desire. There is no Lord
Chamberlain in indianapolis to compel either
full dress or full undress on that occasion.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

PHILADELPHIA is not the liveliest town in
the country, but its natives are by no means
''slow" when it comes to embezzling from
their employers and getting away to Canada.
The number of deficits or, more plainly, holes,
discovered in that city lately where hundreds
of thousands of dollars ought to be, must cause
the Quaker founders to turn in their graves
wi th horror
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

THE $50 aristocratic gentlemen found in the
fashionable London dive raded By the police
through mistake the other night, described
in the dispatch as having been dressed in gam
bling costume" Now what, in the name of the
Chicago Board of Trade, is gambling costumel
Can it possibly be what the Evening News re-
CARDS as the loveiest thing earth-the dress
~
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

A'GooD many strikes are ION" now in diff
ferent parts of the country, but indianapolis
workmen show no disposition to initiate their
brethren of other cities. Having passed
through long period of business depression,
they know when they are well off, and will do
nothing to deprive themselves of the benefit
If tha hoorn
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

ONCE let it be understood that Henry George
and DIR. McGlynn's Anti-poverty Society is
sues paid-up policies against impecuniosity
and they will be overrun with applications for
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

To Judge from the number of strikes begun
or impending, as reported by dispatches from
various parts of the country, the walking
delegate" is trying to earn money enough to
take him to his favorite summer resort little
earlier than usual this season.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

THE News absolutely thinks the street
railway company should be compelled to
pave Washington street between their tracks!
Such deliverance must have caused the Tom
johnson mules to prick up their ears.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

INDIANAPOLIS has been lenient with the
street-car company" This astonishing state
ment appeared in the News last night
Brother Jasper is eight. The sun do move.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

CHARLES CARROLL of Carrolton, may pos
sibly be forgotten, but not Carroll, of the
Pittsburg team.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

OTHER cities are not laughing so much at
the indianapolis team as they did before the
season began.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

THERE doesn't appear to be as much in a name
as the ST. Louis nephew" of p D. Armour, of
Chicago, thoueht there Not enough. at
least. to ward off sus picion and the police until
the returns came in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

IT is base ball that the Indianapolis team
play. Captain Arson discovered that fact
yesterday.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

use for" All this doesn't prove that Mr..
Cleveland is great man. but it does prove
the others mighty small ones.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL

Can DE found at the following places:
LONDON-American Exchange in Europe, 40
Strand.
PARIS--American Exchange in Paris, 30 boulevard
des Capucines.
NEW YORK-Gedney House and Windsor Hotels.
CHICAGO-Palmer House.
CINCINNATI-J. P Hawley & Co., 154 Vine street.
LOUISvILLE-C. T. bearing, northwest corner
Third and jefferson streets.
ST. LOUIS-Unon News Company, Union Depot
and Southern Hotel.
WASHINGTON. j. C.-Riggs House and Ebbtt
House.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-03

Telephone Calls.
Business Ofice..-23S Editorial Rooms 242
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

From an interesting article on "The Rise
of. the Grange Movement" in the Popular
Science Monthly, by Charles w Pierson, We
extrtct the following:
Tho next two years were yesrs of astound-
| NC growth growth almost unparalleled
in the history of secret organizations, and re-
sembling that of the Know-Nothings twenty
years before. At the end Of 1872 about 1900
Oranges had been organized. In the year
1873, 8GGS more were ADDED and in 1874
| IL, 9il, making total Of almost 1900, with
an average membership Of forty. Some idea
of the magnitude of these figures may be
gained from the fact that the whole number
of lodges of Masons and OliFellOws in the
world is estimated at about 10000. The or
Der was represented in every State except
Rhode Island (which has never found room
or il. 1t had been established in the In
dian Territory, whence it appealed for help
to the National Grange because the governor
of the Chickasaw nation looked on it with
suspicion, and had ordered all Changers out
Of the Chickasaw country. IL had taken root
IN Canada, where a few years later, there
we're $50 subordinate Oranges. One deputy
introduced it into England; others were la
boring in France and Germany and inquiries
and invitations were coming even from Aus
tralia and Tasmania.
Grange treasures were overlooking. In
1873 and 1874 thu dues to the National
Grange alone, according to the official state
ment, amounted to S348, 532 20. The press
was discussing the new order with alarm.
Legislative committees were scurrying about
the country to see what could be done for
the farmer. In the words Of the New York
"Nation," "the farmer was the spoiled child
of our politics" The House Of Representa-,
tives at Washington was overawed at the
new power that was apparently rising in
politics, and those who claimed, for the most
part falsely, to represent the movement en-
ioyed an astonishing influence. Among 9th.
er legislation secured by these men, one bill
was rushed through for printing and distrib-
uting to the farmers certain agricultural doc.
uments, az an expense of 100000! W. W.
Phelps opposed it, only to be bitterly at
tackled on the score of sympathy with mono
polists and lack of sympathy with farmers
One fervid orator from Kansas went over
his whole record for proof Of this, and al
legged many damaging facts-among them
that he was rich, that he was interested in
banks and railroads, and that he had been
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24
COAL AND COKE
Splendid Christmas and new
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24
The COMING Year Of St. Nicholas.

The fifteenth year begins with the number
for November, 1887, and the publishers can
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Frances Hodgson Burnett, Frank X. Stockton
II. H. Boyesen, Joel Chandler Harris, j. T.
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H. Rideing, Washington GLADDEN., Harriet
Prescott Spofferd, Amelia +. Barr, Frances
Courtenay Baylor, Harriet Upton, and many
Others. Edmund Alton will write series OF
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how the President works at the White House,
and how the affairs of the Treasury, the State
and War Departments, etc, are conducted !;
Joseph O'Brien, well known Australian
journalist. will describe The Great Island
Continents" Elizabeth Robbins Pennell Will
tell of London Christmas Pantomimes' Al
ice in Wonderland, etc.; John Burroughs
will write meadow and Woodland Talks with
Young Folk" etc, etc. Mrs. Burnctts short
serial will be, the editor says, worthy sue
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Why not try ST. NICHOLAS this year for the
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24
The Local Lounger.
ITO n Con.inusdl

1t seems TO be difficult matter TO keep
up the interest In the Business Mems Asso.
citation. Here we are, In the midst Of
winter, when, II at any time of year, men
are likely to be hunting locations, they are
In the field, to make their locations, perfect
their plans, and make their preparations
for going TO work in the spring.
OF course, when there is nothing to do in
particular, 1t Is impossible 10 get out a
quorum; but why not have at each meet.
Ing (or authorized date for meeting) a
paper prepared and read touching on some
topic of interest to the public, and thus &C.
cumulate fund of information for use In
" talking up" the town or in teaching the
city council.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24

There's the question of sewering the
town; the best way to do IT, The ignorance
of the city council on this subject Zone OF
the most important Of all public works. Is
SO dense 1t can be Gu. with knife,
Why not get some expert information on
Natural Gas' Our local expert said II
wouldn't be found in paying quantities In
Mendoza; and yet It has been found and Is
pouring daily at 90 to "a pounds pressure
from two wells, for which $4,000 have
been refused. II might yet be found near
Ottawa.
Why not have discussion on the best
method of advertising the town,-not the
ches'nuty, mouldy newspaper wri'eup,"
which has been done to the death, and is
as impotent as II Is expensive-a scheme
long since lost lis usefulness but discus
sion that shall develop some new and etrec-
tive methods-and then go att
There are many other ways to improve
the unemployed meeting nights; and also
improve the esprit de corp Of the Associa-
ton; which is very much TO be desired,
-
VIM. Russell, once charged with the
murder Of Maggie Cuddy, and the rape
of a La Sale Polish woman, and now doing
time for the attempted murder of Jason
Ulrich and his wife at the lock, has deyel.
oped into frstclass husorist In letter
to a prominent criminal lawyer Of this city,
he says he positively pants for freedom.
The feathery wings of liberty seem leaden
heavy as he does his ID years time. His
lutering heart beats against the bars of
his residence at Joliet, with failing hopes.
Breaking stone has softened the wild, fiery
glare In his dauntless eye, and the heat
that never shrank at crime now quails at
the thought of social ostracism To be
socially ostracised is Williams deadllest
fear; ana he wants to get out-in time to
murder few more defenseless women be.
fore old age stiffens his joints and turns his
sentence of thirteen years have expired,
and he wants the aforesaid attorney to see
Mr. Oglesby and then tell him (RusselD
what it will cost to get his sentence short.
ened, as he hasn't even one black mark
against him. This is extremely refreshing.
but his humor stiles us, 1t is too sublimely
cheeky. But nevertheless Williams seu
tence will be shortened-as he serves 1t
out.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24
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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-12-24
CFor last week.


The Degree of Honor Lodge of the An
cient Order of United Workmen was an
nounced to give grand ball on Tuesday
evening, and for the initial ball of so young
an organization. it was something out of the
usual run, and something beyond the ex-
pectations of the most sanguine hopes of its
nothing more. The same old canvas, the
same voice Of Seth Willis, the same old
auartette and the same old round dances.
We heard of the grand ball when we were
boys; we enjoyed it in youth, and applauded
the efforts of the youth as we grew old. But
then, it has certain fascination about it
that leads on to success, and with the bread
and butter Of our forefathers, it will march
on forever. II is O nationals world. wide
necessity.
II was about nine o'clock when Jacob
Christman the veteran leader and prompter
of grand marches, appeared upon the floor
and began to arrange the grand march. He
introduced some new features, hard things
to find in this flying age, and the grand
march was therefore n success. In it the
temperaments and present condition of servi-
tude were plainly marked. This young
fellow in the Prince Albert coat aud new
cut vest has his girl along; you can tell it by
his lofty mien. That young man over there
on the end is married He wears detected
air--his wife ia at the ball. The music
crashed-ihe grand march had widened into
q quadrlle. It was o big quadrille too.
There WAS more than twenty sets engaged.
Nowhere in the relms Of dancing possibili-
ties, is there such field for observation as
in the quadrllc. Near the center danced q
young man who seemed utterly ohlivious to
his surroundings, 30 wrapped up was he in
the dance, His surroundings were not,
however, in the same state of mind, and
used up large portion of their time in
placing their pedal extremities beyond the
jurisdiction Of his dainty footwear. Another
picture was presented near the west side Of
the hall, where Freddie insisted on striding
over the canvass between acts. Freddie
didn't appear cute at all--his efforts were q
bowling failure. Near Freddie was staid
old fellow Of fifty. He hadn't been to Q
dance for twenty years, and was only pres
emit on this occasion on the score of fraterni.
~. He danced as though he expected the
measure to end at each blare Of the trumpet
and was visibly surprised because it didn't.
The crowd aggregated at least FIVE hundred
people, and At times there were nearly three
hundred on the floor. Among these three
hundred there were many who had just
emerged from dancing school and hadn't
gotten over their first lessons, at least they
appeared so, for they watched the old heads
feat very closely.
You couldn't help remarking the different
trades and professions represented; they
were too apparent. The pressman balanced
as though the pedal of Gordon jobber was
continually under one foot and looked be-
wildered as he found out his mistake The
telephone and telegraph messengers danced
so slow that they got behind the music, and
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